..To examine whether firearms are more frequently stored loaded, unlocked, or both in households with adolescents only (aged 13-17 years) compared with households with younger children only (aged 0-12 years)...

Gun carrying by high school students in Boston, MA: does overestimation of peer gun carrying matter?

David HemenwayDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Boston, MA 02115, USAJ Adolesc 34:997-1003. 2011

..Social marketing campaigns designed to lower young people's perceptions about the prevalence of peer gun carrying may be a promising strategy for reducing actual gun carrying among youth...

..However, when we used the adult version of the neighborhood assessment data, no neighborhood factor predicted dating violence. The implications and limitations of these findings are discussed...

The built environment and depressive symptoms among urban youth: A spatial regression study

Dustin T DuncanDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USASpat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol 5:11-25. 2013

..While our results overall suggest that the built environment minimally influences youth depressive symptoms, additional research is needed, including to understand our results in the unexpected direction...

Peer violence perpetration among urban adolescents: dispelling the myth of the violent immigrant

..Results suggest that perpetration of violence worsens with increased time in the U.S. Research is needed to identify factors that contribute to the acquisition of behaviors such as violence among recently arrived immigrant youth...

Fighting With Siblings and With Peers Among Urban High School Students

..49 times more likely to have reported fighting with peers. To the extent that we can confirm that sibling violence is associated with aggressive behavior, we should incorporate it into violence prevention programming...

..In multivariate models stratified by sex, this pattern persisted for females only. There is a positive, linear trend in BMI by generation that differs by gender. Mechanisms underlying this association should be addressed...

Emotional distress among LGBT youth: the influence of perceived discrimination based on sexual orientation

Renee M JohnsonInjury Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USAAm J Prev Med 27:173-82. 2004

..This systematic review of published articles (1992 to 2002) provides prevalence estimates of firearm ownership and storage practices in U.S. households...

The association of handgun ownership and storage practices with safety consciousness

Tamera Coyne-BeasleyInjury Prevention Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Community Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7225, USAArch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:763-8. 2002

..As with other injury prevention practices, education about safe firearm storage is recommended to prevent injuries to children...